How did Bludgeon get the resources for his WarWorld and robot-minions
which he controls?
Were the Dinobots, the NeoKnights, and HiQ/Prime the only ones to
encounter the demons late Marvel G1?
Why is Galvatron leaving Earth, and now going back to Cybertron?
IIRC, after the Unicron War in G1 #75, he secretly hitched a ride
aboard the Ark that Shockwave and Starscream were stealing, who had
the same idea of conquering Earth, as they all knew Cybertron was
dying. After the Ark crashed in Canada, Galvatron was taken down by
Fort Max, and just recently got revived, ran into Starscream (who
Galvatron knew Megatron had made so he couldn't speak for himself),
and hijacked the Ark to go back to Cybertron. The only explanation I
can come up for all this is that he discovered the decimation done to
Earth, with no energy and nothing to conquer, and maybe saw Prime and
other Autobots attending to Earth now, and figured Cybertron
survived? Galvatron could have told Starscream this, who in turn told
Shockwave.
I loved the shown scene from the Rhythms of Darkness timeline. I hope
they show more in the future.
The citizens of Cybertrron at HR's speech: Were they both Autobot and
Decepticon, with some Decepticons being part of Soundwave/Bludgeon's
troops? Scorponok's troops were just the converted Autobots, until it
was undone, right?
> The three cover variants available are Cover A by Andrew Wildman (the
> one I bought; it shows Bludgeon symbolically chopping planet Cybertron
> in half with his sword); Cover B by Guido Guidi (which shows Circuit
> Smasher, who does not appear at all in this issue, and Fixit tending
> to some catatonic zombie Nebulan citizens); and the retailer incentive
> cover by Geoff Senior, showing a triumphant Galvatron straddling a
> chasm on Cybertron. This is the first time I dislike the Guidi cover;
> Geoff Senior's is the clear winner of this batch.
I got Cover A this time. I usually get Cover B from my LCS.
> The pacing of this issue feels similar to the fallout in issue #76,
> with a lot of characters recovering from big events and plans being
> prepared in the background to move forward in new directions.
> Scorponok's attempted gene key reprogramming wasn't nearly as
> catastrophic as Unicron's attack on Cybertron, of course, so it feels
> kind of anti-climactic. It's interesting that Soundwave (and,
> presumably, the troops under his command) has forged a partnership
> with Bludgeon rather than simply falling under his command structure
> automatically. (I wonder if Thunderwing would outrank Bludgeon if he
> were conscious?)
Are the two just going to use Thunderwing as a power-source, or
actaully revive him at some point? I'm guessing the former, but not
totally sure.
> Optimus Prime senses somehow that Galvatron is, indeed, a reborn
> version of Megatron. It strains credibility that Prime would even
> know Galvatron's name, since Galvatron spent most of his time trying
> to play Xaaron from behind the scenes and then sneaking aboard the Ark
> before Unicron's attack. The other robots on the Ark might have
> learned who he was, but not Prime.
Well, I've made mention about, as how the Time Wars future was undone,
that perhaps the carnage from it was undone as well (Wreckers'
deaths), but maybe they still recall Galvatron from it, somehow? If
they still recall Galvatron from Time Wars, the way Prime talks about
Galvy II acts like he's guessing he must be Galvatron, when it was
made apparent in Time Wars that he was indeed once Megatron (right?).
Also, as Galvy I died, Optimus would be wondering about that too. Now
that I think about it, didn't Galvatron announce himself to the
Autobots on Cybertron, pre-Unicron War, that he was Galvatron? But
they would have told Prime about it (those that survived the Unicron
War).
> The biggest plot development by far, though, is the introduction of
> Jhiaxus. He appears briefly in flashback in issue #80.5, but I
> assumed that this was more of an acknowledgement of what came before,
> but this Jhiaxus existed only in "zero space" and that he wasn't part
> of this continuity. His introduction now, and the shattering of zero
> space on the final page, suggests that he's going to do some
> continuity-hopping of some sort and will indeed interact with the
> characters from the comic. I'm assuming that Jhiaxus will have
> knowledge from the events of the G2 comic, but that evens unfolded
> differently for him than for the other characters. This has the
> potential to get very messy, so I hope Furman has thought everything
> through in advance.
I'd still rather do without the G2 comic stuff. Never really got into
it. I was hoping that they'd avoid that stuff this time out, but,
again, I guess it was inevitable. I also think posters Gustavo and
G.B. Blackrock are right in that this is just the RG1 version of the
2nd Generation Decepticons. It makes more sense to me, as well.
I really do want an explanation of this "zero space" stuff at some
point, which I'm guessing we'll get.
Page 16, panel 3, the back of Streetwise looks like First Aid's to
me.
> Unfortunately, this is, in some ways, a very content-free issue.
> There just isn't much else to talk about. It's 22 pages in length and
> everything, just like it's supposed to be, but... eh. I've completely
> exhausted everything I have to say. Anybody else?
>
> Zob
Are those swerly-things Optimus saw on Cybertron, then by Galvatron on
the Ark, part of the "zero space" thing, or perhaps Unicron itself, or
maybe both? From the RoD flashback, I get the sense that perhaps the
Autobots had Cybertron when Unicron was eating it.
- Rodimus_2316